Hillary's 47% Moment

[Pat Mustard]

What a game politics in America has become. The reaction to Clinton' gaff is petty. A nation of sheep. We are all tuned in to the nightly news to analyze how well the masses are being manipulated. Should we really be keeping score how effectively a candidate makes the poll numbers jump up or down or should we be asking how this candidate is going to effect or lives and the world we live in. Oh , and Trump is a dick!

Ed Milliband lost in the UK at least in part because he chose to eat a bacon sandwich. The right wing press dove in and we ended up with brexit and the Gerry Mandering of our electoral districts so that the tories will never be out of power.

The other part of the reason is that, as the election rode on he got chicken and dove to the right. By the end Labour policy was little more than "we'll implement almost the same stuff as the Tories, but we won't sneer as much." And when you've two parties offering the same thing, the party doing it longer and offering the more emphatic version wins.

Of course, so badly misjudging Scotland hurt massively too.